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Saratoga Springs, New York
The Skidmore News
Volume 68 Wednesday, March 13, 1985 Number 4
Scholarship Presentations
by A mylou Porter
On Thursday, March 7, twelve of the seventeen College Government Association J-Term Scholarship winners spoke about their months. Projects presented ranged from paintings to playwriting to mind-boggling medical research. The scholarship recipients were able to devote an entire month to pursue fields that were of special interest to them or were relevant to their future career choice. It was extremely unfortunate, however, that much of the college community did not take the time or show the interest to hear the end results of these excellent projects.
The first speaker of the evening was Julia Jacquette, who devoted her J-Term to painting. Her intent was to create five paintings, which she was successful in doing. Julia enjoyed the fact that she could concentrate all of her time on her artwork. She felt that the opportunity to do a J-Term project was a valuable one and is sorry to see the end of January Term.
Joan Kristensen spent her month in New York City working for an artist. She did research and “behind the scenes” work in an art gallery, and was also able to complete six paintings. Joan felt her ex perience was a valuable one as sne was abie to get a good look at the “real life” side of her career choice. She too is sorry to see the end of J-Term.
Paris was the site of Carol Perrier’s J-Term. She attended the American Academy of Paris and was able to study the fashion industry in depth. While attending the school she became acquainted with students from all over the world. She stated to the listeners that one of the most important things she learned was that in order to sell fashions today, a designer must first know as much as possible about the society she/ he is designing for in order to know the marketability of the clothes. She presented several designs to the group, and the listeners could easily tell that Carol enjoyed her J-Term very much: “Having Paris for a campus was wonderful.”
Chris Booker discussed Snow Removal’s project to produce and record original music during the month. Chris told the listening audience that the band had anticipated the recording of the music to not be very difficult. However, it turned out to be tougher than they thought. They would record something, listen to it and maybe hear an out-oftune note or a rhythm that wasn’t together so they would have to re-record. What they did get recorded, they listened to, to try to develop new ideas and learn what else they could do to make the recording go a little easier.
According to james Schneider, J-Term was an “oasis for creativity” because a person can concentrate all their time and effort on one goal. James wrote the play “Paper Bullets,” which was recently performed on campus. He began writing the play last May while he was studying acting in London, and it is his first attempt at play writing. He produced the script and attended rehearsals. He told the listening audience that the hard part of getting the play to work was trying to distinguish individual wants from the goal of the ensemble and the finished product. For James, the “greatest luxury” was to see the play develop and acted out.
Olivier Laude briefly described his J-Term project: he created a sculpture which was displayed in Case Center near the beginning of Spring Semester. The sculpture was the black cube that stood on four legs. It was designed so that a person would look from underneath the structure in order to see its interior, which was filled with fish.
Betsy Taylor discussed her month spent in Texas working for Radian Corporation, which provides technical services for government and industry. She spent some time working in preparation labs, testing samples from nuclear power plants and testing PCB’s in plastic.
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[architect's rendering]
NORTH ELEVATION
STUDENT PAVILION
AT SKIDMORE COLLEGE
PREPARED BY THE SARATOGA ASSOCIATES
Pavilion Vote
The student pavilion received a major boost this past week as 86% of a voting group of nearly 500 approved of a raise of around $25 in the Student Activity Fee in order to fund the building. The vote was seen as extremely positive as it revealed only a slight drop from a similar vote last Fall, only this time the plans were more complete and a direct request for money was made. “I’m quite happy with the results,” said CGA President Mike Ross, “we had a good voter turnout considering it was balloting on only a single issue. More importantly, the voters gave their overwhelming support for the project. What this vote states is that the student body wants the building and they are willing to foot the bill to pay for it.”
Ross and co-project coordinator William Jones (CGA Treasurer) received many questions at the question-and-answer booth they ran in Case last Thursday and Friday. The main negative sentiment they encountered was from the people who asked. “Why do the students have to pay for this building? It’s our college and we want social space—why doesn’t the administration fund it?” This question has taken on a seemingly timeless quality in the past fifteen years as the students have repeatedly petitioned the administration for such space. Ross and Jones feel they have a satisfactory answer.
“This campus is still in the formative stages,” commented Ross, “there are many more important buildings for the administration to pay for. Completion of the Theatre is first priority, and then there is the new academic building, an administration building and new dormitories. All this puts student social space twenty years down the road. With the drinking age going up to twenty-one quite soon, we cannot afford to wait that long. That’s where we come in. The Student Activity Fee is wholly separate from administrative overhead—it is a fund strictly for student events. We see the pavilion not just as an event, but as a whole new facet in Skidmore life. And when the New York State drinking age goes up, it will be a building that is virtually irreplacable.”
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Yolanda King
by Michelle Leslie
President of NETWORK
Ms. Yolanda King, eldest child of Martin Luther King Jr. and Mrs. Coretta Scott King, will lecture at 8 p.m., Wednesday, March 20 in Gannett Auditorium.
Ms. King received her B. A. in Theatre and African-American Studies with honors in Theatre at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. While at Smith, she directed and performed in numerous productions throughout the area. She then moved to New York where she obtained her M.F.A, and performed in several showcase and off-off Broadway, productions.
Though not traditionally regarded as a service-oriented profession, working in the performing arts requires an ability to fully share the person that you are. Thus Yolanda naturally assimilated this 1 value, especially since she grew up in a home environment deeply involved in service to humanity.
Armed with this discovery, Ms. King has combined her commitment to social change with her theatrical pursuits. As she defines it, ‘While it is imperative to actively challenge the forces that deny human beings their right to a decent life...one must also stimulate and alter the hearts and minds of both the privileged and those who have been long denied. Within the arts lies this power.’ Her involvements reflect this necessity. She was a founding member of Christian Theater Artists and has taught theater to young people and college students. She presently serves as co-editor of Nucleus, along with Attallah Shabazz (the oldest daughter of Malcolm X). Nucleus is a company of performing artists dedicated to presenting ideas that will encourage positive growth within humanity. Ms. King’s film credits include the role of Rosa Parks in King, an NBC made for-television movie; the manageress in Hopscotch; and the role of Betty Shabazz in The Death of a Prophet, about Malcolm X.
Yolanda serves on the Board of Directors of The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, where she is director of the King Center’s Institute on Cultural Affairs. Her publications include ‘Using Television to Teach Nonviolence’, in Teachers Guide to Television and she authors a column for Black Family Magazine.
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Inside
- Politics 5
- Movie Review 11
- Health 10

Saratoga Springs, New York
The Skidmore News
Volume 68 Wednesday, March 13, 1985 Number 4
Scholarship Presentations
by A mylou Porter
On Thursday, March 7, twelve of the seventeen College Government Association J-Term Scholarship winners spoke about their months. Projects presented ranged from paintings to playwriting to mind-boggling medical research. The scholarship recipients were able to devote an entire month to pursue fields that were of special interest to them or were relevant to their future career choice. It was extremely unfortunate, however, that much of the college community did not take the time or show the interest to hear the end results of these excellent projects.
The first speaker of the evening was Julia Jacquette, who devoted her J-Term to painting. Her intent was to create five paintings, which she was successful in doing. Julia enjoyed the fact that she could concentrate all of her time on her artwork. She felt that the opportunity to do a J-Term project was a valuable one and is sorry to see the end of January Term.
Joan Kristensen spent her month in New York City working for an artist. She did research and “behind the scenes” work in an art gallery, and was also able to complete six paintings. Joan felt her ex perience was a valuable one as sne was abie to get a good look at the “real life” side of her career choice. She too is sorry to see the end of J-Term.
Paris was the site of Carol Perrier’s J-Term. She attended the American Academy of Paris and was able to study the fashion industry in depth. While attending the school she became acquainted with students from all over the world. She stated to the listeners that one of the most important things she learned was that in order to sell fashions today, a designer must first know as much as possible about the society she/ he is designing for in order to know the marketability of the clothes. She presented several designs to the group, and the listeners could easily tell that Carol enjoyed her J-Term very much: “Having Paris for a campus was wonderful.”
Chris Booker discussed Snow Removal’s project to produce and record original music during the month. Chris told the listening audience that the band had anticipated the recording of the music to not be very difficult. However, it turned out to be tougher than they thought. They would record something, listen to it and maybe hear an out-oftune note or a rhythm that wasn’t together so they would have to re-record. What they did get recorded, they listened to, to try to develop new ideas and learn what else they could do to make the recording go a little easier.
According to james Schneider, J-Term was an “oasis for creativity” because a person can concentrate all their time and effort on one goal. James wrote the play “Paper Bullets,” which was recently performed on campus. He began writing the play last May while he was studying acting in London, and it is his first attempt at play writing. He produced the script and attended rehearsals. He told the listening audience that the hard part of getting the play to work was trying to distinguish individual wants from the goal of the ensemble and the finished product. For James, the “greatest luxury” was to see the play develop and acted out.
Olivier Laude briefly described his J-Term project: he created a sculpture which was displayed in Case Center near the beginning of Spring Semester. The sculpture was the black cube that stood on four legs. It was designed so that a person would look from underneath the structure in order to see its interior, which was filled with fish.
Betsy Taylor discussed her month spent in Texas working for Radian Corporation, which provides technical services for government and industry. She spent some time working in preparation labs, testing samples from nuclear power plants and testing PCB’s in plastic.
continued on 6
[architect's rendering]
NORTH ELEVATION
STUDENT PAVILION
AT SKIDMORE COLLEGE
PREPARED BY THE SARATOGA ASSOCIATES
Pavilion Vote
The student pavilion received a major boost this past week as 86% of a voting group of nearly 500 approved of a raise of around $25 in the Student Activity Fee in order to fund the building. The vote was seen as extremely positive as it revealed only a slight drop from a similar vote last Fall, only this time the plans were more complete and a direct request for money was made. “I’m quite happy with the results,” said CGA President Mike Ross, “we had a good voter turnout considering it was balloting on only a single issue. More importantly, the voters gave their overwhelming support for the project. What this vote states is that the student body wants the building and they are willing to foot the bill to pay for it.”
Ross and co-project coordinator William Jones (CGA Treasurer) received many questions at the question-and-answer booth they ran in Case last Thursday and Friday. The main negative sentiment they encountered was from the people who asked. “Why do the students have to pay for this building? It’s our college and we want social space—why doesn’t the administration fund it?” This question has taken on a seemingly timeless quality in the past fifteen years as the students have repeatedly petitioned the administration for such space. Ross and Jones feel they have a satisfactory answer.
“This campus is still in the formative stages,” commented Ross, “there are many more important buildings for the administration to pay for. Completion of the Theatre is first priority, and then there is the new academic building, an administration building and new dormitories. All this puts student social space twenty years down the road. With the drinking age going up to twenty-one quite soon, we cannot afford to wait that long. That’s where we come in. The Student Activity Fee is wholly separate from administrative overhead—it is a fund strictly for student events. We see the pavilion not just as an event, but as a whole new facet in Skidmore life. And when the New York State drinking age goes up, it will be a building that is virtually irreplacable.”
continued on 9
Yolanda King
by Michelle Leslie
President of NETWORK
Ms. Yolanda King, eldest child of Martin Luther King Jr. and Mrs. Coretta Scott King, will lecture at 8 p.m., Wednesday, March 20 in Gannett Auditorium.
Ms. King received her B. A. in Theatre and African-American Studies with honors in Theatre at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. While at Smith, she directed and performed in numerous productions throughout the area. She then moved to New York where she obtained her M.F.A, and performed in several showcase and off-off Broadway, productions.
Though not traditionally regarded as a service-oriented profession, working in the performing arts requires an ability to fully share the person that you are. Thus Yolanda naturally assimilated this 1 value, especially since she grew up in a home environment deeply involved in service to humanity.
Armed with this discovery, Ms. King has combined her commitment to social change with her theatrical pursuits. As she defines it, ‘While it is imperative to actively challenge the forces that deny human beings their right to a decent life...one must also stimulate and alter the hearts and minds of both the privileged and those who have been long denied. Within the arts lies this power.’ Her involvements reflect this necessity. She was a founding member of Christian Theater Artists and has taught theater to young people and college students. She presently serves as co-editor of Nucleus, along with Attallah Shabazz (the oldest daughter of Malcolm X). Nucleus is a company of performing artists dedicated to presenting ideas that will encourage positive growth within humanity. Ms. King’s film credits include the role of Rosa Parks in King, an NBC made for-television movie; the manageress in Hopscotch; and the role of Betty Shabazz in The Death of a Prophet, about Malcolm X.
Yolanda serves on the Board of Directors of The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, where she is director of the King Center’s Institute on Cultural Affairs. Her publications include ‘Using Television to Teach Nonviolence’, in Teachers Guide to Television and she authors a column for Black Family Magazine.
continued on 6
Inside
- Politics 5
- Movie Review 11
- Health 10